{"id":143280,"date":"2024-03-31T22:48:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-31T15:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tenants-trapped-in-a-collapsing-housing-system-letters\/"},"modified":"2024-03-31T22:58:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-31T15:58:13","slug":"tenants-trapped-in-a-collapsing-housing-system-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/tenants-trapped-in-a-collapsing-housing-system-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenants trapped in a collapsing housing system | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSocial housing tenants are suffering just as much as those in the private rented sector, writes Suzanne Muna. Plus letters from Derrick Joad, Rosemary Walker and Bob ColenuttThank you for John Harris\u2019s excellent call for politicians to act on the housing crisis (Neglected, derided and exploited more than ever: why won\u2019t the UK protect those who rent a home?, 24 March). The Social Housing Action Campaign\u2019s perspective is that we are no longer in a housing crisis. It is system collapse. Tenants and residents in social housing are suffering just as those in the private rented sector. Last year, the vast majority of housing associations utilised the maximum scope allowed by government and increased their rents by 7%. These inflated rents will rise again this year by 7.7%.Shared owners fare even worse. This tenure is long recognised as combining the worst of both worlds, having to pay rents and mortgages but enduring the full cost of bills, maintenance and repairs for their homes no matter how small the proportion they actually \u201cown\u201d. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Social housing tenants are suffering just as much as those in the private rented sector,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-BgY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47373,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/philip-hammond-has-done-little-for-tenants-letters\/","url_meta":{"origin":143280,"position":0},"title":"Philip Hammond has done little for tenants | Letters","date":"March 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is joining forces with the homelessness charity Crisis to ask the government for measures to support vulnerable tenants in the private rented sector (Benefit cuts \u2018are forcing poor out of rental market\u2019, 9 March). 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